From funic!news.funet.fi!sunic!dkuug!daimi!pope Wed Feb 19 08:39:25 EET 1992
Article: 5964 of comp.lang.postscript
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From: pope@daimi.aau.dk (Povl Hessellund Pedersen)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: PPST on Freedom of Press mac + others
Message-ID: <1992Feb11.224743.25199@daimi.aau.dk>
Date: 11 Feb 92 22:47:43 GMT
Sender: pope@daimi.aau.dk (Povl Hessellund Pedersen)
Organization: DAIMI: Computer Science Department, Aarhus University, Denmark
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Hi,
Freedom of Press Light for macintosh has used more 
than 30 minutes doing the PPST. It is still working,
so I will look at it when I get home.  It did not like
the reversepath either. But the error came in the stroke
command, that there was nothing to stroke.

The Mac I am running on is an SE/30, 8MB RAM (about 1.5
or 2 MB allocated to Freedom of Press), running system 7.0.
The machine has a 16MHz 68030 amd 68882 FPU, and the version
of Freedom of Press installed uses the FPU directly.
Guess this is a good reason to port Ghostscript to Macintosh.

A few other results:

       DecLaser 2250    HP/Apollo 400    HP series 300
       PS vers. 51.4     GS 2.3            GS 2.3
Graph     19.6309        0.8105             2.9257
RAM/font   7.9101        2.2421             5.2460
Math      20.7891        0.9062             2.2714
Total     48.3301        3.9589            10.4434

Relative scale:
G          2.7             66.1              18.3
R          8.1             28.6              12.2
M          1.9             42.6              17.0
T          3.2             39.5              15.0

I am not sure how fast the HP Series 300 is, but they also
have an 68030, so the Mac SE/30 with FoP should not take
longer than 15-20 seconds at most running ghostscript. This
is a speedup of at least a factor 50 over FoP.
Maybe it is because FoP uses 300 DPI all the way, and then
does scaling/dithering after that ?
--
Povl H. Pedersen (External student at dept. of CS, student at dept. economics)
Macintosh programmer, consultant and technical support
eco861771@ecostat.aau.dk   /   pope@daimi.aau.dk